Count Five and Die, released 23 December 1957 (London, UK), March 1958 (USA). Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Bill Ranson; Annemarie Düringer as Rolande Hertog; Nigel Patrick as Major Julien Howard; David Kossoff as Dr. Mulder; Rolf Lefebvre as Hans Faber, chief spy; Larry BurnsMartins, building porter-spy; Anthony Ostrer (undetermined role); Claude Kingston as Willem Mulder; Philip Ray (undetermined role); Robert Raglan as Lt. Miller; Peter Prouse as Sgt. Bill Parrish; Philip Bond as Piet van Wijt; Otto Diamant as Mr. Hendrijk; Marianne Walla as Mrs. Hendrijk; Beth Rogan as Mary Ann Lennig; Arthur Gross as Jan Guldt; Wolf Frees as Brauner, shot spy; John Tatham, Army Captain.
😂 I swear Michelle is a pain & today was almost the worst. Especially since her Grandbrat spilled Milk all over my Back seat. I told her in the Church to take that bottle of milk from her after she soaked me with it. She added more to it. And did as she pleased I went off on her
Sadly, the freedoms that the brave men and women fought for, and gave their lives for, has been handed over to a modern day enemy, with barely a single shot being fired in our defence. Shame on the politicians who have created this suicide.
At around 11.15, I can't help comparing Nigel Patrick & Jeffery Hunter, looking out the window, to Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood in 'Where Eagles Dare'. Uncanny!
@@JohnCooper1 as an Expert, not a layman, I key on the story, if compelling, and not the Giroux panavision camera shirt comes used at the wrong speed for b w filum
*FANTASTIC* movie! Taut, suspenseful, extremely well-acted. It's amazing how those cheap sets and other problems just recede into the background when the acting is so compelling and the story so well-told. I mean, Jeffrey Hunter's voice was genuinely shaky & his breathing ragged after that raid scene. The girl's hands in that final scene had such convincing tremors too. Just the opposite of today's films where the acting is so bad it must give way to the special effects.
@@jesseowenvillamor6348 Acting might be as good but I believe there's always been a good proportion of bad actors. The Rosary Murders was full of them, save for Donald Sutherland. I recommend you don't watch it, unless you're immortal and don't have to worry about wasting 90 minutes of your life on crap. This movie was, in contrast, a good use of my time, and well cast. I've always liked Jeffrey Hunter.
If by that u mean a film that has: thrils, fear, blackmail, manipulation, lies, secret information, spies & conspiracy set against 1940's WWII, then you should also try "Foreign Correspondent aka Correspondent 17" by A.Hitchcock, it's pretty damn good too.
The Counterfeit Traitor just might be the greatest WWII espionage movie ever made. Fantastic film of a true story that doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves. If you've not seen it, definitely check it out.
People don't know that this kind of stuff went on all the time back during the war. They set up Patton on the South East Coast of England with a fake army being trained. To convince the Germans that the invasion was coming into Holland or northeast France.
It's a real shame that Jeffrey Hunter was so underrated as an actor, it's almost as though his looks held him back, he wasn't taken seriously enough. He was just starting to get grittier roles when he died suddenly.
Quite good film, thanks for posting it. I adore Jeffrey Hunter, especially here, with that Kennedy look, and that smile, and those eyes (some eyes to swim in !) And such a good actor too. Nigel Patrick is perfect, and so perfectly british. A good moment, thanks again.
@Jeffrey Bone In your first message you wrote : He wasn't gay !" I never said he was, and that's why I answered : "So what ?" For the rest, gay people don't have to "admit" what they are, it is no longer a sin to confess or a secret to reveal. Some people are gay exactly like others are not. That's all. And I still think that Jeffrey, particularly in this film was "to die for". Anyhow have a good day.
love black and white movies. alot of suggestion while no show. you don't have people dropping the f-bomb all over the place. bring back the days of yea and nah!!! T THANK YOU FOR POSTING! THE MORE YOU POST THE LESS TV, NETFLIK, HULU,AMAZON PLUS, I EVER NEED TO WATCH.
all the ladies in the comments say how handsome Mr hunter was. No one even mentions Nigel Patrick. I don't know if his looks appeal to the ladies or not but no one played a lovable rogue better than him. The man had bags of charm. On top of that he did not know how to give a bad performance in any of the films he appeared in
Nigel has chiseled good looks, and lots of intensity and charisma. I think he's much more attractive than Mr. Hunter. One of my favorite comedies, which he stars in and directs, is How to Murder a Rich Uncle. I also love Silent Dust, starring Nigel, and featuring his then future wife, Beatrice Campbell (who plays his stepmother). Very versatile, talented actor, one of Britain's best.
The very best of British, that's the only way to describe Nigel Patrick. Always watchable, always giving top quality performances. Had the great pleasure of seeing him in a West End play whilst on my honeymoon in London. I love the way he wore his hat. He was always instantly recognisable, even from a distance. I also like Jeffrey Hunter, who died too young. He was terrific opposite John Wayne in ' The Searchers '.
The most dangerous job in war. Get caught, get shot. No medals or open recognition. Only the best and brightest need apply. Yet, people are brave enough to do it. It takes a special kind. Unsung heros. Amazing people.
It's a surprisingly "vintage" effort for 1957, and more resembles a work from at least 10 years earlier. Good performances all round, with some nice noirish bits, and seedy British ambience. The rather hyperbolic title is hardlty answered by the story. Well worth a watch despite its less-than-perfect shame. Thanks for sharing it.
COUNT FIVE AND DIE. It is subtle and implicitly explained. A cyanide capsule kills within 5 seconds after it is crushed in a person's mouth by biting the pill's shell. The British man had a fake capsule that didn't work. The second man, Peter the Dutchman, asked for a cyanide capsule but was not given one so that he would be tortured when captured by the Germans. The third man was a German agent who took a capsule and died within 5 seconds. The availability of cyanide capsules was critical to the success of the mission to mislead the Germans. The amount of reverse psychology, bluffing and fake double-bluffing is mind boggling.
Jeffery Hunter was in The Searchers with John Wayne ... great western directed by John Ford. Wayne and Hunter both did an outstanding job in that movie. One of the best westerns ever made.
What a dirty thing war is!!! But this is an excellent film with top-notch acting all round and the knowledge that it is based on a true story. Thank you for posting it.
I remember when Data was pronounced Darta in the 50s. At work certain documents were sent in the Data Post bag, using compressed lead seals and wire Aged 84.
I'm MOST glad this film was made in England (London) rather than letting Hollywood ruin it. It is one of the best WWII films based on the secret services, espionage and counter espionage.
A nice Treat of a film to discover and watch. Just the right place and didn't go overboard with intensity or up the music, in those scenes. The fine acting took care of everything. Great casting, first of all. Director moved his actors along just right. A good, Behind The Scenes, war movie. I will seek out all these fine actors in other films they made. Thanks for uploading.!!
Jeffrey hunter was always underrated as an actor because he was the male version of Elizabeth Tayler. Eye candy for the females. But he spent the rest of his life trying to be a good actor in spite of his extraordinary good looks. His wife talked him out of the original star trek series as the first choice for capt. Kirk because she felt Jeff was a movie star not a TV actor and to her it was demeaning to be selling toilet paper corn flakes and coffee from the same sponsors year after year. In those days of the 1960s there was a huge difference between TV and screen actors.tickets cost money and TV was free.
no one would have been surprised by a female SOE agent; Churchill sacrificed them like counters in a game. For instance, 4 female agents were sent into Europe with (unknowingly) false info re D-Day, then betrayed to the Nazis by....SOE. All were captured by the Gestapo, tortured, info extracted, then killed. Maybe they'll make a movie about that episode...but I doubt it.
Jeffrey Hunter was, besides being a 'pretty' actor, was a very good actor. He was offered the Lead Roll in the 1966 "Star Trek" series, but turned it down only to have a series of Strokes and dying in 1969 at only 42 years old following a serious fall and a botched operation. He could have gone on to Super Fame with the "Star Trek" series in hindsight. You can see how he isn't just another Pretty Face actor in this movie.
Inura, thanks for the most interesting biog on Jeffrey Hunter -I well remember his performance in the Star Trek pilot. I wonder how different the series would have been with him in place of William Shatner.....
A well made hard hitting (for the 1950s) WW2 film about D-Day. It was made on the cheap (and shows in the production values) but nevertheless is well scripted and well acted especially by the always under-rated Nigel Patrick.
Michael Sean O''Dubhghaill..I agree...Nigel Patrick did not appear to receive the ""accolades"" that he should have. If I see a film with him in it, I usually make a point of watching it as he could not put a foot wrong in any of his movies. He was in a tv show in the late 50''s, or thereabouts with an American actor..whose name escapes me but this actor was later in an American sries with Jack Elam about US Marshalls or Texas rangers..(sorry, should have googled this first) Our hero played an investigator at a British Airport...Excellent..I adore him.
I like the way Annemarie Duringer switches from a Dutch English accent to a English German accent when she is talking to her German spy contact. And yes the Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Towers were not around in 1944 but still a great spy film. Very well done !
Cooling towers were a common feature of all power stations throughout the twentieth century.Steam had to be cooled whether it was produced with coal, gas, oil and finally from nuclear power !
@Peter Hoult: You are correct, but I think it was not the steam that had to be cooled but rather the hot water. And in that process lots of steam developed. It was part of the coiling water circuit.
Thanks for posting, never saw it before and it was a very good thriller. Great characters and suspense. Also, I've always liked Jeffrey Hunter and I'm getting the feeling he's being rediscovered (or discovered for the first time) by many people thanks to things like TH-cam. Have you ever seen him in Brainstorm? That's a wild picture. He's got the same intensity as in this film, but it's a different type of character and a memorable one.
I've heard that he had an accident on a film set that caused some problems with his head that eventually led to that fatal fall. And though his career was cut short, he certainly made a number of good films and is clearly the subject of fan discussion today! Check him out in No Down Payment, Heather, if you haven't seen that yet--another excellent film that also stars his first wife Barbara Rush.
Irv O. Neil Fortunately, the "powers-that-be" didn't cast him and his ex-wife as husband and wife in the NO DOWN PAYMENT - or give them any scenes of interaction through dialogue. Hunter's character's wife in that movie was played by Patricia Owens, while Barbara Rush played the wife of Pat Hingle's character.
I guess there are just so many X-factors that go into the level of success of an acting career! At least we can still enjoy Hunter's movies, of which he happily made a good number.
Count Five and Die, released 23 December 1957, London, UK, March 1958 (USA). Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Bill Ranson; Annemarie Düringer as Rolande Hertog; Nigel Patrick as Major Julien Howard; David Kossoff as Dr. Mulder; Rolf Lefebvre as Hans Faber, chief spy; Larry BurnsMartins, building porter-spy; Anthony Ostrer (undetermined role); Claude Kingston as Willem Mulder; Philip Ray (undetermined role); Robert Raglan as Lt. Miller; Peter Prouse as Sgt. Bill Parrish; Philip Bond as Piet van Wijt; Otto Diamant as Mr. Hendrijk; Marianne Walla as Mrs. Hendrijk; Beth Rogan as Mary Ann Lennig; Arthur Gross as Jan Guldt; Wolf Frees as Brauner, shot spy; John Tatham, Army Captain.
Thank you for the upload. :) Enjoyable movie. Practically all the way through the movie Major Howard's voice was very familiar to me. Then it hit me, he was Major Rogers from the 'Tales from the Crypt' 1972 in the 'Blind Alley's' segment.
Two bits of trivia that probably interests very few: The hideous looking car @15:41 is a 1937 Triumph Dolomite which came complete with twin trumpet horns, twin spot lamps and winding windows though a radio cost a further 18 guineas; also the actor, David Kossoff, was the father of Paul Kossoff, the soulful lead guitarist of the band Free.
@Don Rocin ..."hideous looking car"... ??? Haha, and here's me watching the movie and saying out loud, wow, what a gorgeous grill on that great car! I wonder who made it?! Without the blackout shades on the headlights and fog lights, it must have looked wonderful! The two trumpets are amazing. We had a Jaguar Mark IV when I was a child, and I love the style of those old beauties. Thanks for sharing the added info!
@@donrocin Oh, that's lovely! Ours was the 3,5 liter limousine model, and I used to tell my mother we could fit the bathtub on the backseat floor area if we wanted to. My dad also had the XK-120 drophead, silver with red interior. When I was very little, my grandmother said I could hear the car coming from blocks away and would get very excited saying, "the car with the pretty voice is coming!" I loved riding in those cars! What magnificent automobiles, eh?
At the 25:25 mark I became overwhelmed with a great Elvis presley song...Suspicious Minds...hard to believe...for me...it was 1969 when that song got a lot of AM radio airplay...All my best friends have died...some went to the March on DC in 1970...NOT A DAMN THING HAS CHANGED...still under UK/MOSSAD control.
The English assignment was to feed misinformation to the Germans about the location of the D-Day landings; they are to make it look like the invasion will be in Holland. Ten German divisions were not in the line; they were north in Holland, waiting for an invasion that never came. The D-Day landings instead, took place June 6, 1944. Forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region, and not Holland. Re: the film: heavy background noises sometimes over ride the characters voices. It would be good if the film was restored. l found the clothing and hairstyles too modern, more like the early 60's in the era the film was was made. Plot is very good....especially the espionage tactics used. The pace of the film was upbeat...never a dull moment. Nigel Patrick is in charge of the whole English espionage unit, his acting and command role, he delivered with aplomb. Nigel Patrick a very good actor, and a very nice person. Jeffrey Hunter.....one of the nicest people in Hollywood.....died from a fall in his home, resulting in a skull fracture...hemorrhaged...died the next day after the operation. He was 42 y.o., left 4 children.
I have seen this movie 3 or 4 times.........have always enjoyed it.........am enjoying it again. THANK YOU for providing it. Please, many more or this type and era.........I like everything from the U.K. from about 1935 to about 1975 except monster or horror movies ( I can just not watch them) others may like them.
Really excellent and so much better than the far fetched tripe that is produced today. I started watching two movies before this one - they were 2018 released approximately - but were such rubbish, I quit both of them. In future I am only going to watch older films.
A war movie for folks like me who detest them. Great, character driven plot. This could just as easily be a story about secret agents ala 007, or even the formation of an elaborate bank heist plan. I'm glad I stayed with this one until the end.....
Ditto my feeling about war movies. Ditto your critique of this movie. Ditto being glad to stay with this one to the finish. And a "Thank you" to ThirdPlebian for making it available.
I did lookup Mr. Wynne's books and suggested them to my husband as well as this movie. I was curious about why his offspring wrote the author at age 86 was stuck in Cyprus. Mr. Wynne is a man of principle. I am not surprised his legal case is such as i is because I am Greek and my experience is in Greece at least there are no lines or there were no lines in the bank, utter chaos and corruption when my father was dealing with lawyers regarding property he had. There is no order and bureaucratic nonsense prevails. Maybe he would be a happier man to just let it go! be free of it. I can understand however, if he took a bite and held on like a pitbull he cannot let it go! It sounds exhausting.
Marcus Hughes.Many congratulation to your father,Barry Wynne, for a rmakable story.I have been watching a lot of movies, of recent times, and this movie is, by far, the best I have seen. Nigel Patrick, as always, played a perfect roll and Jeffery Hunter, was remarkable in his role demonstrating the talent that he possessed. It is such a shame that he did not live to further what would have been an excellent career. Many thanks to ThirdPlebian for uploading.
Long time ago knew someone who was personally recruited by Col. William "Wild Bill" Donovan. He was asked to occasionally write a check for a boat or plane. Chances were he did a great deal more than that--but would never tell. The real heroes never do.
Count Five and Die is a 1957 British war drama produced by Zonic Productions and released in the USA by the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Victor Vicas, produced by Earnest Gartside with the screenplay by Jack Seddon and David Pursall. It starred Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick, Annemarie Düringer and David Kossoff. Cinematography was by Arthur Grant. Filmed in London, the story concerns the feeding of misinformation to German Intelligence about the exact location of the D-Day landings in 1944. Captain Bill Ranson (Jeffrey Hunter) and Major Julien Howard (Nigel Patrick) are two allied intelligence officers posing as documentary film makers in the occupied Low Countries. Their concerns centre on the credentials of Rolande Hertog (Annemarie Düringer), a new recruit to the intelligence service recently arrived from Holland.
You just had to get your 1 minute of fame by repeating what ThirdPlebian stated in the introductory comments. As we say in England, "Sum muvvers do hav 'em, don't they?" 'nuf sed
Jeffrey Hunter is soooo gorgeous that it hurts just to look at him. He is also an amazing actor and real. The man had talent, unfortunately wife number 2 distroyed his career and he wasn´t srong enough to fight the evil. What a waste of beauty and talent. Gone too soon. God bless you my little angel
You sound like my mother did years ago he was one of her favorites in an era when there was just Hollywood magazines. Almost everything he was in he was good in, my favorite is Sailor of the King 1953 and of course Capt.Pike in the Star Trek pilot. He died of a freak fall in his home hitting his head and died the next day after surgery didn't work very sad at 42.
OHHHHHHHH doesn't it just kill you to look at Hunter. I adore looking at him in several films. I was just 12 yrs old when he first came into my sight and I said to my sister-- "c'mon--he isn't real."
If you like Jeffrey Hunter, see Single Handed- he has a big role. Amazing to think all this cloak & dagger stuff actually happened, with thousands of agents & underground types never knowing who to trust. Good work, you people with nerves of Steel!
Was I snookered or what? Dueringer was Swiss not Dutch. I am speechless as she could pass for Dutch anywhere, but I never encountered a Swiss woman who could. Evidently, that is why she was cast in this role.
A pity Hunter turned down the second Star Trek pilot offer after the original pilot was rejected by NBC. He might have then avoided a pyrotechnics accident on a movie set in Spain that appears to have killed him through an undiagnosed brain injury afterward, dying at age 42. A fine actor whose later career is missed thereby.
"Based" on a true story is I feel an understatement. Ending far too implausible to be authentic, pure story telling but an interesting and well acted film made on location which was a policy of Fox in the late 40's and during the 50's just wish they would have shown more of a now vanished world.
cameronpaul. What do you mean of it being now a vanished world? Do you mean those streets of England? What has changed so much from what we see in this movie?
John Rogers - where to begin? The changes have been massive and altered most aspects of life in the UK - housing, social attitudes, dress, manners, smoking, drinking at work, the international standing of the UK, food, obesity, consumerism, the channels for information and much more.
Ending makes sense. Based on true story (at least a movie script). Had to chance a bullet (possible death) so she would resend with the false message. By only taking her into custody, it would have put those Germans at Normandy, not Holland. Hunter appears to survive where Duringer surely does not.
Good movie. I was a little surprised when he mentioned the word "bathroom" inthis 1957 movie, it is a word that usually went unspoken for the sake of taste. A half foreign venture I suppose explains that little dose of reality. Good film and plot though the world in it was kept quite small. Good to see Jeffrey Hunter in this role he was the lead in quite a few movies taking the television role of Captain Pike was likely considered a low point by him and his agent. Television and movie roles were not considered equally good as they are today, with that in mind, and his past as a leading man in movies, it is understandable that he turned down the chance to continue on what was then "the little screen."
Any film with Nigel Patrick is worth watching and this is one of them
This is my favorite kind of movies! Another hidden gem,that I watched for then1srlt time! Good movie!!
Count Five and Die, released 23 December 1957 (London, UK), March 1958 (USA). Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Bill Ranson; Annemarie Düringer as Rolande Hertog; Nigel Patrick as Major Julien Howard; David Kossoff as Dr. Mulder; Rolf Lefebvre as Hans Faber, chief spy; Larry BurnsMartins, building porter-spy; Anthony Ostrer (undetermined role); Claude Kingston as Willem Mulder; Philip Ray (undetermined role); Robert Raglan as Lt. Miller; Peter Prouse as Sgt. Bill Parrish; Philip Bond as Piet van Wijt; Otto Diamant as Mr. Hendrijk; Marianne Walla as Mrs. Hendrijk; Beth Rogan as Mary Ann Lennig; Arthur Gross as Jan Guldt; Wolf Frees as Brauner, shot spy; John Tatham, Army Captain.
"You have an irritating American habit of prying into personal matters under the guise of being concerned with health." (@34.17) It's now Global.
Like the covtard scam 2020
So True !
You said it: health or safety Is the premise used to collect more data about and from you.
...what type of car is that ,at the 16minute mark of the movie...
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I swear
Michelle is a pain & today was almost the worst.
Especially since her Grandbrat spilled Milk all over my Back seat.
I told her in the Church to take that bottle of milk from her after she soaked me with it.
She added more to it.
And did as she pleased
I went off on her
I am a born British citizen and proud. God bless all those that fought for our freedom. Nice film
Sadly, the freedoms that the brave men and women fought for, and gave their lives for, has been handed over to a modern day enemy, with barely a single shot being fired in our defence. Shame on the politicians who have created this suicide.
thank you sir
Another excellent performance by Nigel Patrick.
Patrick and Hunter superb as always, fine supporting cast, just shows what you can do with a good plot taut script and a limited budget....
At around 11.15, I can't help comparing Nigel Patrick & Jeffery Hunter, looking out the window, to Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood in 'Where Eagles Dare'. Uncanny!
As a USC film grad I can absolutely say that this is absolutely…..excellent
As a York University film grad I concur.
As a layman did you not notice how the pan and scan ruined the movie?
@@JohnCooper1 as an Expert, not a layman, I key on the story, if compelling, and not the Giroux panavision camera shirt comes used at the wrong speed for b w filum
*FANTASTIC* movie! Taut, suspenseful, extremely well-acted. It's amazing how those cheap sets and other problems just recede into the background when the acting is so compelling and the story so well-told. I mean, Jeffrey Hunter's voice was genuinely shaky & his breathing ragged after that raid scene. The girl's hands in that final scene had such convincing tremors too. Just the opposite of today's films where the acting is so bad it must give way to the special effects.
Nah acting is still good today
@@jesseowenvillamor6348 Acting might be as good but I believe there's always been a good proportion of bad actors. The Rosary Murders was full of them, save for Donald Sutherland. I recommend you don't watch it, unless you're immortal and don't have to worry about wasting 90 minutes of your life on crap. This movie was, in contrast, a good use of my time, and well cast. I've always liked Jeffrey Hunter.
@@thomassnider6691 That's just your wrong observation.
@@jesseowenvillamor6348 About what? My comment had 3 observations.
@@thomassnider6691 All 3 of them are wrong. So shut up.
Surprisingly good movie! I, at least, have not heard of it before. Of course, I love everything with Nigel Patrick in the cast!
Nigel Patrick & David Kossoff, two actors that I really like.
Thank you.
This is the best film of its type that I have yet found on YT: strong plot, excellent acting. Thanks for posting.
If by that u mean a film that has: thrils, fear, blackmail, manipulation, lies, secret information, spies & conspiracy set against 1940's WWII, then you should also try "Foreign Correspondent aka Correspondent 17" by A.Hitchcock, it's pretty damn good too.
@@mikeg9305 Thanks for the tip - I'm looking for it now.
One of the best WW2 espionage movies ever. You have to sift through a lot of youtube duds to find a gem like this. Thanks for posting.
The Counterfeit Traitor just might be the greatest WWII espionage movie ever made. Fantastic film of a true story that doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves. If you've not seen it, definitely check it out.
Thank you, enjoyed
Yep, war is Hell. I'm sure shit like this happened. No sense sugar-coating it!
People don't know that this kind of stuff went on all the time back during the war. They set up Patton on the South East Coast of England with a fake army being trained. To convince the Germans that the invasion was coming into Holland or northeast France.
I agree completely
Excellent. Love any film with Nigel Patrick. Thanks for uploading.
It's a real shame that Jeffrey Hunter was so underrated as an actor, it's almost as though his looks held him back, he wasn't taken seriously enough. He was just starting to get grittier roles when he died suddenly.
Thank you, for the upload. This was a very enjoyable film and Jeffrey Hunter is always easy on the eyes.
Quite good film, thanks for posting it. I adore Jeffrey Hunter, especially here, with that Kennedy look, and that smile, and those eyes (some eyes to swim in !) And such a good actor too. Nigel Patrick is perfect, and so perfectly british. A good moment, thanks again.
@Jeffrey Bone
so what ?
@Jeffrey Bone In your first message you wrote : He wasn't gay !" I never said he was, and that's why I answered : "So what ?"
For the rest, gay people don't have to "admit" what they are, it is no longer a sin to confess or a secret to reveal. Some people are gay exactly like others are not. That's all.
And I still think that Jeffrey, particularly in this film was "to die for".
Anyhow have a good day.
Thank you for posting this film, I thoughly enjoyed it, I gave it a wide berth until I noticed Nigel Patrick was in it,
This is a really good and engaging movie. Smart script and good story line.
An excellent film -suspenseful and well acted. A film worth viewing.
Excellent story and good performances.
love black and white movies.
alot of suggestion while no show.
you don't have people dropping the f-bomb all over the place.
bring back the days of yea and nah!!! T
THANK YOU FOR POSTING!
THE MORE YOU POST THE LESS TV, NETFLIK, HULU,AMAZON PLUS, I EVER NEED TO WATCH.
Totally Agree! 👍
all the ladies in the comments say how handsome Mr hunter was. No one even mentions Nigel Patrick. I don't know if his looks appeal to the ladies or not but no one played a lovable rogue better than him. The man had bags of charm. On top of that he did not know how to give a bad performance in any of the films he appeared in
He was awesome!! Nice looking and so talented!! You are right!! They do not appreciate him
Nigel has chiseled good looks, and lots of intensity and charisma. I think he's much more attractive than Mr. Hunter. One of my favorite comedies, which he stars in and directs, is How to Murder a Rich Uncle. I also love Silent Dust, starring Nigel, and featuring his then future wife, Beatrice Campbell (who plays his stepmother). Very versatile, talented actor, one of Britain's best.
I adore Patrick.
The very best of British, that's the only way to describe Nigel Patrick. Always watchable, always giving top quality performances. Had the great pleasure of seeing him in a West End play whilst on my honeymoon in London. I love the way he wore his hat. He was always instantly recognisable, even from a distance.
I also like Jeffrey Hunter, who died too young. He was terrific opposite John Wayne in ' The Searchers '.
john lewis to each his own
The most dangerous job in war. Get caught, get shot. No medals or open recognition. Only the best and brightest need apply. Yet, people are brave enough to do it. It takes a special kind. Unsung heros. Amazing people.
good suspense . I like the fact it's more focused on thriller than a war itself. Yes definitely recommend it.
Excellent.!!! Excellent... Excellent !!! Spy movie... one of the best I have seen... Excellent !!! Excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a surprisingly "vintage" effort for 1957, and more resembles a work from at least 10 years earlier. Good performances all round, with some nice noirish bits, and seedy British ambience. The rather hyperbolic title is hardlty answered by the story. Well worth a watch despite its less-than-perfect shame. Thanks for sharing it.
COUNT FIVE AND DIE. It is subtle and implicitly explained. A cyanide capsule kills within 5 seconds after it is crushed in a person's mouth by biting the pill's shell. The British man had a fake capsule that didn't work. The second man, Peter the Dutchman, asked for a cyanide capsule but was not given one so that he would be tortured when captured by the Germans. The third man was a German agent who took a capsule and died within 5 seconds. The availability of cyanide capsules was critical to the success of the mission to mislead the Germans. The amount of reverse psychology, bluffing and fake double-bluffing is mind boggling.
Great film, thanks and please keep them coming
Jeffery Hunter was in The Searchers with John Wayne ... great western directed by John Ford. Wayne and Hunter both did an outstanding job in that movie. One of the best westerns ever made.
This was well done. Frtitz Lang would be proud of this picture. I agree " The Searchers" was one of the best westerns by the master John Ford.
That and"the cowboys"w/John Wayne.🐴🐴🐴🐴
Nope. Give me Randolph Scott, George O'Brien, Johnny Mack Brown, Guinn Williams, Gary Cooper, or William Boyd any day over annoying Wayne.
@@zyral.f.6938 Plus Joel McCrea, Lash LaRue, Tom Mix, Rod Cameron. You and I are clearly of a similar age. 😁
@@zyral.f.6938 Wayne acted like a bully both on screen and on the movie set. Look carefully at his movies.
Jeffrey Hunter excellent actor AWSOME movie thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
Great movie, it's a shame Jeffery Hunter had such a short life.
What a dirty thing war is!!! But this is an excellent film with top-notch
acting all round and the knowledge that it is based on a true story.
Thank you for posting it.
Quite a number of brilliant single images which convince any cinematic aesthete of the value of these films if for no other reason. Excellence!
Yes how to actually film a movie with a camera.
Thank you so much for uploading this!! What a great movie!!
I remember when Data was pronounced Darta in the 50s. At work certain documents were sent in the Data Post bag, using compressed lead seals and wire Aged 84.
Brilliant movie from start to finish. Cinematography acting, Superb.
I'm MOST glad this film was made in England (London) rather than letting Hollywood ruin it. It is one of the best WWII films based on the secret services, espionage and counter espionage.
A nice Treat of a film to discover and watch. Just the right place and didn't go overboard with intensity or up the music, in those scenes. The fine acting took care of everything. Great casting, first of all. Director moved his actors along just right. A good, Behind The Scenes, war movie. I will seek out all these fine actors in other films they made. Thanks for uploading.!!
Jeffrey hunter was always underrated as an actor because he was the male version of Elizabeth Tayler. Eye candy for the females. But he spent the rest of his life trying to be a good actor in spite of his extraordinary good looks. His wife talked him out of the original star trek series as the first choice for capt. Kirk because she felt Jeff was a movie star not a TV actor and to her it was demeaning to be selling toilet paper corn flakes and coffee from the same sponsors year after year. In those days of the 1960s there was a huge difference between TV and screen actors.tickets cost money and TV was free.
no one would have been surprised by a female SOE agent; Churchill sacrificed them like counters in a game. For instance, 4 female agents were sent into Europe with (unknowingly) false info re D-Day, then betrayed to the Nazis by....SOE. All were captured by the Gestapo, tortured, info extracted, then killed. Maybe they'll make a movie about that episode...but I doubt it.
Now they dispense with nations, not just a handful of people.
Jeffrey Hunter a excellent actor❤❤❤
Jeffrey Hunter was, besides being a 'pretty' actor, was a very good actor. He was offered the Lead Roll in the 1966 "Star Trek" series, but turned it down only to have a series of Strokes and dying in 1969 at only 42 years old following a serious fall and a botched operation. He could have gone on to Super Fame with the "Star Trek" series in hindsight. You can see how he isn't just another Pretty Face actor in this movie.
Inura, thanks for the most interesting biog on Jeffrey Hunter -I well remember his performance in the Star Trek pilot. I wonder how different the series would have been with him in place of William Shatner.....
My understanding is that Hunter played Kirk in a pilot episode, but died before the series proper was embarked on. Enter Mr.Shatner.
@@MOGGS1942 He played Capt Pike.
They sure botched up his face on Star Trek. Looked like he had massive acne scars.
@@grahamt33 i think it would been almost the same. Altough at times Shatner did add some humor, as well as that way talked at times.
I have always liked anything with Nigel Patrick in, thanks for this.
Very well done. Excellent acting and script.
A well made hard hitting (for the 1950s) WW2 film about D-Day. It was made on the cheap (and shows in the production values) but nevertheless is well scripted and well acted especially by the always under-rated Nigel Patrick.
Micheal Sean O'Dubhghaill commander pike was good!
Michael Sean O''Dubhghaill..I agree...Nigel Patrick did not appear to receive the ""accolades"" that he should have. If I see a film with him in it, I usually make a point of watching it as he could not put a foot wrong in any of his movies. He was in a tv show in the late 50''s, or thereabouts with an American actor..whose name escapes me but this actor was later in an American sries with Jack Elam about US Marshalls or Texas rangers..(sorry, should have googled this first) Our hero played an investigator at a British Airport...Excellent..I adore him.
Yes but it was quality with great acting. These days they spend a fortune and produce tripe.
Good film. Thank you for posting it.
This is great. Thank you for putting this movie up.
Thanks for uploading, didn't know this one existed.
Very witty dialogue and yet believable. I notice the father of one of the 70's most sensitive guitar icons is in the cast.
Who’s that?
David is father of Paul Kossof the guy from Free.
@@TheSpiralnotebook :)
Thanks for sharing this great movie!
I like the way Annemarie Duringer switches from a Dutch English accent to a English German accent when she is talking to her German spy contact. And yes the Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Towers were not around in 1944 but still a great spy film. Very well done !
Cooling towers were a common feature of all power stations throughout the twentieth century.Steam had to be cooled whether it was produced with coal, gas, oil and finally from nuclear power !
@Peter Hoult: You are correct, but I think it was not the steam that had to be cooled but rather the hot water. And in that process lots of steam developed. It was part of the coiling water circuit.
A true suspense thriller!
Thank you for posting!
Thanks for posting, never saw it before and it was a very good thriller. Great characters and suspense. Also, I've always liked Jeffrey Hunter and I'm getting the feeling he's being rediscovered (or discovered for the first time) by many people thanks to things like TH-cam. Have you ever seen him in Brainstorm? That's a wild picture. He's got the same intensity as in this film, but it's a different type of character and a memorable one.
He was also an alcoholic, and died when he fell down the stairs. He never had a good start. :-(
I've heard that he had an accident on a film set that caused some problems with his head that eventually led to that fatal fall. And though his career was cut short, he certainly made a number of good films and is clearly the subject of fan discussion today! Check him out in No Down Payment, Heather, if you haven't seen that yet--another excellent film that also stars his first wife Barbara Rush.
Irv O. Neil Fortunately, the "powers-that-be" didn't cast him and his ex-wife as husband and wife in the NO DOWN PAYMENT - or give them any scenes of interaction through dialogue. Hunter's character's wife in that movie was played by Patricia Owens, while Barbara Rush played the wife of Pat Hingle's character.
Quite how someone of Hunter's intensity and good looks got eclipsed by cheesier actors like Rock Hudson defies belief. A very 'modern'-looking guy.
I guess there are just so many X-factors that go into the level of success of an acting career! At least we can still enjoy Hunter's movies, of which he happily made a good number.
Count Five and Die, released 23 December 1957, London, UK, March 1958 (USA). Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Bill Ranson; Annemarie Düringer as Rolande Hertog; Nigel Patrick as Major Julien Howard; David Kossoff as Dr. Mulder; Rolf Lefebvre as Hans Faber, chief spy; Larry BurnsMartins, building porter-spy; Anthony Ostrer (undetermined role); Claude Kingston as Willem Mulder; Philip Ray (undetermined role); Robert Raglan as Lt. Miller; Peter Prouse as Sgt. Bill Parrish; Philip Bond as Piet van Wijt; Otto Diamant as Mr. Hendrijk; Marianne Walla as Mrs. Hendrijk; Beth Rogan as Mary Ann Lennig; Arthur Gross as Jan Guldt; Wolf Frees as Brauner, shot spy; John Tatham, Army Captain.
Thank you for the upload. :) Enjoyable movie.
Practically all the way through the movie Major Howard's voice was very familiar to me. Then it hit me, he was Major Rogers from the 'Tales from the Crypt' 1972 in the 'Blind Alley's' segment.
Yes, quality movie. Hunter was also in "Sailor of the King".
Two bits of trivia that probably interests very few: The hideous looking car @15:41 is a 1937 Triumph Dolomite which came complete with twin trumpet horns, twin spot lamps and winding windows though a radio cost a further 18 guineas; also the actor, David Kossoff, was the father of Paul Kossoff, the soulful lead guitarist of the band Free.
@Don Rocin ..."hideous looking car"... ??? Haha, and here's me watching the movie and saying out loud, wow, what a gorgeous grill on that great car! I wonder who made it?!
Without the blackout shades on the headlights and fog lights, it must have looked wonderful! The two trumpets are amazing. We had a Jaguar Mark IV when I was a child, and I love the style of those old beauties. Thanks for sharing the added info!
@@WildWestGal Ah, now the Jag we can agree on. I owned a 1948 Mark V, many years ago. A great beauty and a joy to drive.
@@donrocin Oh, that's lovely! Ours was the 3,5 liter limousine model, and I used to tell my mother we could fit the bathtub on the backseat floor area if we wanted to.
My dad also had the XK-120 drophead, silver with red interior. When I was very little, my grandmother said I could hear the car coming from blocks away and would get very excited saying, "the car with the pretty voice is coming!" I loved riding in those cars! What magnificent automobiles, eh?
I like any film with Captain Pike in it.
With his blue eyes and Susan Oliver's blue eyes could have had some really beautiful blue-eyed kids
Great film. Well done. Thanks.,
At the 25:25 mark I became overwhelmed with a great Elvis presley song...Suspicious Minds...hard to believe...for me...it was 1969 when that song got a lot of AM radio airplay...All my best friends have died...some went to the March on DC in 1970...NOT A DAMN THING HAS CHANGED...still under UK/MOSSAD control.
Great old film,the kind of films i like to watch!Classic!
Excellent film. Thank you!
Love your old movies
Excellent movie.
Thank you
The English assignment was to feed misinformation to the Germans about the location of the D-Day landings; they are to make it look like the invasion will be in Holland.
Ten German divisions were not in the line; they were north in Holland, waiting for an invasion that never came.
The D-Day landings instead, took place June 6, 1944. Forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region, and not Holland.
Re: the film: heavy background noises sometimes over ride the characters voices. It would be good if the film was restored. l found the clothing and hairstyles too modern, more like the early 60's in the era the film was was made.
Plot is very good....especially the espionage tactics used.
The pace of the film was upbeat...never a dull moment.
Nigel Patrick is in charge of the whole English espionage unit, his acting and command role, he delivered with aplomb.
Nigel Patrick a very good actor, and a very nice person.
Jeffrey Hunter.....one of the nicest people in Hollywood.....died from a fall in his home, resulting in a skull fracture...hemorrhaged...died the next day after the operation.
He was 42 y.o., left 4 children.
xcellent. Thnx for sharing.
Good flick. Thank you for sharing.
I have seen this movie 3 or 4 times.........have always enjoyed it.........am enjoying it again.
THANK YOU for providing it.
Please, many more or this type and era.........I like everything from the U.K. from about 1935 to about 1975 except monster or horror movies ( I can just not watch them) others may like them.
Really excellent and so much better than the far fetched tripe that is produced today. I started watching two movies before this one - they were 2018 released approximately - but were such rubbish, I quit both of them. In future I am only going to watch older films.
A war movie for folks like me who detest them. Great, character driven plot. This could just as easily be a story about secret agents ala 007, or even the formation of an elaborate bank heist plan. I'm glad I stayed with this one until the end.....
Ditto my feeling about war movies. Ditto your critique of this movie. Ditto being glad to stay with this one to the finish.
And a "Thank you" to ThirdPlebian for making it available.
I did lookup Mr. Wynne's books and suggested them to my husband as well as this movie. I was curious about why his offspring wrote the author at age 86 was stuck in Cyprus. Mr. Wynne is a man of principle. I am not surprised his legal case is such as i is because I am Greek and my experience is in Greece at least there are no lines or there were no lines in the bank, utter chaos and corruption when my father was dealing with lawyers regarding property he had. There is no order and bureaucratic nonsense prevails. Maybe he would be a happier man to just let it go! be free of it. I can understand however, if he took a bite and held on like a pitbull he cannot let it go! It sounds exhausting.
Marcus Hughes.Many congratulation to your father,Barry Wynne, for a rmakable story.I have been watching a lot of movies, of recent times, and this movie is, by far, the best I have seen. Nigel Patrick, as always, played a perfect roll and Jeffery Hunter, was remarkable in his role demonstrating the talent that he possessed. It is such a shame that he did not live to further what would have been an excellent career. Many thanks to ThirdPlebian for uploading.
Nice upload. Jeffrey Hunter was a fine actor. Had never seen this one.
For those that haven't seen this - ↓ MAJOR spoiler alerts ↓
Thank you.
Excellent movie!!!
Thank you for sharing @Thirdplebian
enjoyed the movie very much, thanks.
"You can only avoid regret by switching off your imagination."
Long time ago knew someone who was personally recruited by Col. William "Wild Bill" Donovan. He was asked to occasionally write a check for a boat or plane. Chances were he did a great deal more than that--but would never tell. The real heroes never do.
A great story of the horrors of war a great cast the plot was fantastic ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Jeffrey Hunter is a very natural actor. He has a believable ease about him. He's also easy on the eyes!
Thank you for this 🙂🇨🇦
Count Five and Die is a 1957 British war drama produced by Zonic Productions and released in the USA by the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Victor Vicas, produced by Earnest Gartside with the screenplay by Jack Seddon and David Pursall. It starred Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick, Annemarie Düringer and David Kossoff. Cinematography was by Arthur Grant.
Filmed in London, the story concerns the feeding of misinformation to German Intelligence about the exact location of the D-Day landings in 1944. Captain Bill Ranson (Jeffrey Hunter) and Major Julien Howard (Nigel Patrick) are two allied intelligence officers posing as documentary film makers in the occupied Low Countries. Their concerns centre on the credentials of Rolande Hertog (Annemarie Düringer), a new recruit to the intelligence service recently arrived from Holland.
You just had to get your 1 minute of fame by repeating what ThirdPlebian stated in the introductory comments. As we say in England, "Sum muvvers do hav 'em, don't they?"
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Jeffrey Hunter is soooo gorgeous that it hurts just to look at him. He is also an amazing actor and real. The man had talent, unfortunately wife number 2 distroyed his career and he wasn´t srong enough to fight the evil. What a waste of beauty and talent. Gone too soon. God bless you my little angel
You sound like my mother did years ago he was one of her favorites in an era when there was just Hollywood magazines. Almost everything he was in he was good in, my favorite is Sailor of the King 1953 and of course Capt.Pike in the Star Trek pilot. He died of a freak fall in his home hitting his head and died the next day after surgery didn't work very sad at 42.
OHHHHHHHH doesn't it just kill you to look at Hunter. I adore looking at him in several films. I was just 12 yrs old when he first came into my sight and I said to my sister-- "c'mon--he isn't real."
Lily Tyler you know he was gay dont you?
he was liberaces toy..
Rex Truegood - I don't believe that!! You probably dream he was!! Mr. True good!
If you like Jeffrey Hunter, see Single Handed- he has a big role. Amazing to think all this cloak & dagger stuff actually happened, with thousands of agents & underground types never knowing who to trust. Good work, you people with nerves of Steel!
Was I snookered or what? Dueringer was Swiss not Dutch. I am speechless as she could pass for Dutch anywhere, but I never encountered a Swiss woman who could. Evidently, that is why she was cast in this role.
Film of some beautifully- ominous weather in old blighty.
Would hav bn mor convincing if ppl wore 40s clothing/hairstyles but gr8 story. Captivating. Very enjoyable.
Tanks 4 posting this.It's nice to Capt. Pike again.
As a kid I always wanted Captain Scarlet to be real. Jeffrey Hunter is perfect for the role 😍 Beautiful
A pity Hunter turned down the second Star Trek pilot offer after the original pilot was rejected by NBC.
He might have then avoided a pyrotechnics accident on a movie set in Spain that appears to have killed him through an undiagnosed brain injury afterward, dying at age 42.
A fine actor whose later career is missed thereby.
Excellent story, good choice of actors.
Once again I'm afraid the aspect ratio is wrong. This movie should be in CinemaScope!
"Based" on a true story is I feel an understatement. Ending far too implausible to be authentic, pure story telling but an interesting and well acted film made on location which was a policy of Fox in the late 40's and during the 50's just wish they would have shown more of a now vanished world.
cameronpaul. What do you mean of it being now a vanished world? Do you mean those streets of England? What has changed so much from what we see in this movie?
John Rogers - where to begin? The changes have been massive and altered most aspects of life in the UK - housing, social attitudes, dress, manners, smoking, drinking at work, the international standing of the UK, food, obesity, consumerism, the channels for information and much more.
That was great! 👍🏻
Ending makes sense. Based on true story (at least a movie script). Had to chance a bullet (possible death) so she would resend with the false message. By only taking her into custody, it would have put those Germans at Normandy, not Holland. Hunter appears to survive where Duringer surely does not.
Did he not think she could've covered him with the gun and Morse coded at the same time? Is that why he walked towards her?
A good clear print 🎥😉
thanks for this treat!
Great, thanks.
A very good film of the era.
Much finesse in this unusual film.
Good movie. I was a little surprised when he mentioned the word "bathroom" inthis 1957 movie, it is a word that usually went unspoken for the sake of taste. A half foreign venture I suppose explains that little dose of reality. Good film and plot though the world in it was kept quite small. Good to see Jeffrey Hunter in this role he was the lead in quite a few movies taking the television role of Captain Pike was likely considered a low point by him and his agent. Television and movie roles were not considered equally good as they are today, with that in mind, and his past as a leading man in movies, it is understandable that he turned down the chance to continue on what was then "the little screen."
Great film, thanks.....it is complete, I watched to the end credits!